How to Use ignorant in a Sentence

ignorant

adjective
  • She was ignorant about the dangers of the drug.
  • He is an ignorant old racist.
  • It was an ignorant mistake.
  • We’d be laughed at and called ignorant boors!
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 24 Jan. 2026
  • People who say change is good are ignorant of a great root beer snow cone.
    — Southern Living, 2 Sep. 2014
  • People who say change is good are ignorant of a great root beer snow cone.
    — Rick Bragg, Southern Living, 11 July 2017
  • Let those with the ignorant comments bury their heads in shame.
    — Nimi Princewill, CNN, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Dunk isn’t ignorant of what doing the right thing could cost him.
    — Ben Travers, IndieWire, 13 Jan. 2026
  • But there are also Black folks who are ignorant of this.
    — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
  • An ignorant person could read a book or ask somebody who knows.
    — Philip Martin, Arkansas Online, 29 Nov. 2022
  • Some sellers, who may only own a home for a few years, may be ignorant of its past.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2025
  • Now, this girl is young and naive and her ignorant words don't have the power to hurt anyone in this case.
    — Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 21 Dec. 2022
  • Those sorts of critiques are short-sighted and, frankly, ignorant.
    — Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Democrats are hateful, hostile, ignorant and out of touch.
    — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2026
  • By lying to her about his own past, Michael has kept her ignorant and, at least in his eyes, pure.
    — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 25 Feb. 2021
  • Even worse, they were kept ignorant of their emancipation for over two and a half years.
    — Marcia L. Fudge, Fortune, 19 June 2020
  • What’s going on is that the bank and its customer service reps are ignorant of the law.
    — Liz Weston, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2026
  • Their hope is that at least no one seeing the account can claim to be ignorant of the scale of the issue.
    — Kayla Dwyer, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Aug. 2022
  • The world is an ignorant place full of ignorant people.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 4 Aug. 2025
  • So a lot of the conventions of that can be made fun of in a nice way by seeing that world through his ignorant eyes.
    — Anne Victoria Clark, Vulture, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Don’t be part of the problem, the ignorant, the willingly blind.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 30 Sep. 2022
  • But part of that is to reward those businesses that do it right, and punish the ignorant.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2020
  • Now it is being challenged by an ignorant bully, who claims to have great wealth and would like to be king of the world.
    — Chicago Tribune, 13 Feb. 2025
  • Those who bleat about starters not pitching deep into games are ignorant of how much baseball has changed in the past few years.
    — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 25 Oct. 2017
  • The idea that the best coach cannot learn from a struggling rookie is almost too ignorant to even address.
    — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 27 Oct. 2024
  • What’s easy to overlook or be ignorant to is the history of what someone’s been through.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Sep. 2019
  • Fasting is a shield, so the one who fasts should avoid obscene speech and ignorant behavior.
    — Eslah Attar, National Geographic, 12 June 2019
  • The work clearly showed that the bonobos could tell when their human partner was ignorant.
    — Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2025
  • Poverty and ignorant employers lead to anger, and the anger leads to sickness.
    — Lisa Marie Basile, SELF, 16 Oct. 2019
  • One of the things that people are surprised to find out about me is that my favorite hardcore is the messy and ignorant type.
    — Shawn Reynaldo, Pitchfork, 2 Nov. 2023

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